Mastodawn

The Right to Authentic Belief

Sometimes I just wonder if it's true that we have the right not to be hypocrites. Religious beliefs and practices should be accepted and practised sincerely, without being threatened with fear and so on. We are not here to impress religious elites. My religion is mine; others are theirs.

#faith #spirituality #religion #freedom #truth #life #belief #sincerity #heart #peace #personal #growth #rights #humanity #mindfulness

Sofia Florina Apr 12

I want to be hugged...

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #hug #hugs #hugme #hugmeplease #pleasehugme #loveme #lovemeplease #pleaseloveme #iwanthug #ineedhug #iwantlove #ineedlove #sincere #sincerity

WIST Quotations Apr 8

A quotation from Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), "Of Presumption [De la Presomption]" (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)] | WIST Quotations

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery. [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement,…

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Apr 7

I think the one thing that defines the left wing of #GenerationX #GenX more than any thing else is deep #skepticism of #sincerity. Not that we don't believe that sincerity exists, but it has been shown to us so many times that displays of sincerity are hiding lies.

We're the children of #BabyBoomers who demand we worship the #SummerOfLove and their #antiwar and their #EarthDay, #CivilRights, and #Feminism, yet everything the #MeGeneration did in subsequent years put the lie to all of that.

Bodhi 心 Mar 28

Wanna be friends? I value #sincerity, #earnestness, #kindness and #authenticity. I believe that serious, meaningful friendships can be formed online. Every friend was once a stranger.

I haven’t really stayed in one place for long, which means I have met loads of people over the years, but the friendships generally drift off because I wander around so much.

I figure this can be offset by striking up a friendship online, where geographical non-proximity is the defining feature. So, yeah 👍🏼

WIST Quotations Mar 27

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York American

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…

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Russell, Bertrand - Essay (1933-02-01) "On Tact," New York American | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations Mar 19

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82852…

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